[4142] in RedHat Linux List
Re: creating a 1722K floppy
???@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Julien Maillard)
Tue Nov 12 20:25:26 1996
To: Daniele Carbonetti <dnlcrb@rtmol.it>
cc: maillard@mail.vt.edu, redhat-list@redhat.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 13 Nov 1996 01:15:16 +0100."
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Reply-To: maillard@vt.edu
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 20:10:54 -0500
From: Julien Maillard <maillard@tulipe.val.org>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
> You must create these files in /dev
>
> mknod -m 640 fd0H1722 b 2 60
> mknod -m 640 fd0H1743 b 2 76
> mknod -m 640 fd0H1760 b 2 96
> chown root.floppy fd0*
>
> and now
>
> fdformat /dev/fd0H1760 (or whatever you like)
> mke2fs -m 0 /dev/fd0
> Bye!
Thanks Daniele,
has anyone more pointers as whether the above devices might damage certain floppy drives? I remember reading this somewhere... also, where can I get more info on the different sizes available and their associated major and minor numbers?
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